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Hanamizuki is a film of genre Drama directed by Nobuhiro Doi with Yui Aragaki
Hanamizuki (2010)
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Add to a movie listHanamizuki (ハナミズキ, Hanamizuki) is a 2010 Japanese romance drama film inspired by the lyrics of a love song of the same name by Yō Hitoto. The film is directed by Nobuhiro Doi, and its script was written by Noriko Yoshida. The film spans the ten-year period from 1996 to 2006, and it stars Yui Aragaki as Sae, a high school student who later grows into a young adult. Toma Ikuta also stars in this film, playing the role of Kouhei, Sae's boyfriend and an aspiring fisherman.
Sae and Kouhei met by accident on a train when they were both high school students, and a relationship starts to form. Later, when Sae needs to leave Hokkaido to go to Tokyo for studies, the two of them attempted to have a long distance relationship. However, their bond is tested by multiple challenges facing the two of them.
Hanamizuki was first released in Japanese cinemas on 21 August 2010. It subsequently made its international debut at the 30th Hawaii International Film Festival. The film received a mixed reception from critics, and grossed over US$32,990,888, making it the 12th highest grossing Japanese film of 2010.
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This film spans the years of 1996 to 2006. It begins in the year 2005 when Sae is traveling to her birthplace of Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia in Canada. On the bus, she looks at a photo, and the scene immediately goes back to 1996. Sae and Kouhei met on a train ride to their respective college entrance examinations. The train hit a deer, causing Sae to worry about being late for the examinations. They went to a nearby house to ask if the owners could give them a lift. Sae spotted a key in the truck parked at the porch. She asked Kouhei if he would "borrow" the truck to take her to the exam center. However, when Kouhei tried to overtake a slow cow truck, he narrowly avoided an incoming crane, and went off the road into a ditch. They were brought to a police station and Sae was disqualified from her examinations.Actors
Yui Aragaki
(Sae Hirasawa. This will be Aragaki's last high school character, though she will be playing the role of a career women later in the film. She had also undergone special language training to cope with the English lines in this film. Sae is a Hokkaido high)
Ikuta Toma
(Kouhei Kiuchi, the only son of a fisherman who dreams of following in his father's footsteps one day. When he first saw Sae, he immediately fell in love with her. He was later married Ritsuko, but was divorced from her a little later due to a falling out.)
Osamu Mukai
(Junichi Kitami)
Hiroko Yakushimaru
(Ryoko)
Misako Renbutsu
(Ritsuko Watanabe)
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